Roland Meyer has been DIZH Bridge Professor for Digital Cultures and Arts at the University of Zurich and the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) since July 2024. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Collaborative Research Centre «Virtual Lifeworlds» at the Ruhr University Bochum, where he worked on virtual image archives. Roland Meyer's work as a media and visual culture researcher focuses on networked image cultures. He is particularly interested in the new aesthetic and [...]

Katharina Morawek is a trained scenographer and organizational developer. She is the managing director at Zentrum Künste und Kulturtheorie (Center for Arts and Cultural Theory), a network at the interface of the University of Zurich and the Zurich University of the Arts, with close ties to the bridge professorship. She was the artistic director of the Shedhalle Zurich and founded numerous initiatives on the politics of history and democracy. She works with cultural institutions on questions of [...]

Lars Pinkwart is a research associate at the Bridge Professorship. He is pursuing a PhD at the University of Zurich and is part of the 2026 cohort of the DSI Excellence Program. He holds an interdisciplinary MA in Design and Computation from TU Berlin and the Berlin University of the Arts. Previously, he studied media studies and visual culture in Potsdam and London. His research project examines the aesthetics and epistemology of generative AI, with a particular focus on so-called «world [...]

Kathrin Trattner is a postdoctoral researcher in the URPP «Digital Religion(s)» at the University of Zurich. She studied German philology and religious studies at the University of Graz. In her dissertation, she investigated the construction of enemies in military shooter games from an intersectional perspective. Her research interests include discourses of identity and alterity in social media, right-wing extremism in gaming, nationalism and video games, religion and digital media. She is the [...]